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<ul><li>Bitcoin closed at $77,712 on Sunday, up 20.57% w/w, its best week since October 2025.</li><li>Spot BTC ETFs drew $1.92B (week ending Aug 21), the largest weekly inflow of 2026.</li><li>Trump hosted crypto CEOs at the White House Aug 19, urging CLARITY passage.</li></ul>

Bitcoin closed at $77,712 on Sunday, up 20.57% w/w, its best week since October 2025.Spot BTC ETFs drew $1.92B (week ending Aug 21), the largest weekly inflow of 2026.Trump hosted crypto CEOs at the White House Aug 19, urging CLARITY passage.

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<li>SEC narrowly approves listing of spot Bitcoin ETF citing high correlation between CME futures and spot bitcoin price and adequacy of CME surveillance sharing.</li>
<li>New ETFs offer highly competitive expense ratios. ETFs also offer discount to expense ratio during a discount period.</li>
<li>ETFs see strong trading activity on day 1 but much of it likely came from outflows from GBTC to lower cost ETFs.</li>
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SEC narrowly approves listing of spot Bitcoin ETF citing high correlation between CME futures and spot bitcoin price and adequacy of CME surveillance sharing.
New ETFs offer highly competitive expense ratios. ETFs also offer discount to expense ratio during a discount period.
ETFs see strong trading activity on day 1 but much of it likely came from outflows from GBTC to lower cost ETFs.


Spot BTC ETFs Attract $4.3 Billion on Day 1 Paving the Way for Institutional Adoption

<ul><li>Bitcoin closed near $62.8K on Sunday, down roughly 3% w/w, its worst week in six.</li><li>Spot Bitcoin ETFs bled $389.7M between Aug 10 and 14, the largest weekly outflow in six weeks.</li><li>July CPI printed 0.1% MoM and 3.4% YoY, in line with consensus.</li></ul>

Bitcoin closed near $62.8K on Sunday, down roughly 3% w/w, its worst week in six.Spot Bitcoin ETFs bled $389.7M between Aug 10 and 14, the largest weekly outflow in six weeks.July CPI printed 0.1% MoM and 3.4% YoY, in line with consensus.

<ul><li>Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs snapped their longest losing streak on record, pulling in a combined $281.8 million for the week after eight straight weeks (week ending July 12) that drained $8.26 billion.</li><li>Renewed US-Iran hostilities rattled markets midweek, with Bitcoin sliding to roughly $61,492 on July 8 after Trump declared the ceasefire over, before recovering to $64,400 (intraday high of $64,658.97 on July 10) by Friday on a short squeeze.</li><li>Strategy sold a record 3,588 BTC for $216 million, its largest disposal ever, to fund preferred stock dividends, a marked shift from years of never selling.</li></ul>

Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs snapped their longest losing streak on record, pulling in a combined $281.8 million for the week after eight straight weeks (week ending July 12) that drained $8.26 billion.Renewed US-Iran hostilities rattled markets midweek, with Bitcoin sliding to roughly $61,492 on July 8 after Trump declared the ceasefire over, before recovering to $64,400 (intraday high of $64,658.97 on July 10) by Friday on a short squeeze.Strategy sold a record 3,588 BTC for $216 million, its largest disposal ever, to fund preferred stock dividends, a marked shift from years of never selling.

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